Data Scientist II, Hotels Analytics (LATAM)

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the team

The Traveler Business Team has a mission to deliver the most convenient, rewarding, and memorable ways for people to travel and explore the world. This division has responsibility to build and drive the growth of our global consumer business across our Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, and Portfolio brands, and across all our lines of businesses including Hotels, Vacation Rentals, Air, Car, Packages, and Insurtech. 

Come and join us at Expedia Group (EG) as an Analytics expert supporting the Lodging organization by analyzing business trends, deriving insights, and using facts to guide and advise the LATAM hotel account management team.

As a Data Scientist for Hotel Analytics, you will construct data-driven proposals and recommendations by leveraging complex datasets, rigorous analytical techniques, and a deep understanding of the business. You will enjoy end-to-end ownership of analysis and projects leveraging multiple teams’ inputs and data to provide insights guiding actions across the organization.

The successful candidate will be able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, establish priorities, leverage technical capabilities to drive business impact, maintain relationships with senior leadership, and own deliverables end to end. This individual will be able to work with minimal oversight and be able to manage delivery of high-quality outputs in a dynamic work environment with overlapping deadlines. If you are self-driven, curious, and have demonstrated success in using data analysis to drive innovation and business growth, this position is for you! 

In this role, you will:

• Frame business challenges as an analytical problem and a concrete set of analytical tasks.  
• Assess and evaluate the use of various methods when trying to solve a problem considering the underlying assumptions.
• Pick analytically valid approaches, appropriate in terms of level of effort, favoring iterative delivery that solves for the objective, not the ask.
• Extract data from multiple data sources and combine them into the required datasets for model building or analytics.  
• Build simple and powerful data visualizations providing actionable insights to your stakeholders.
• Stay updated on the latest problem-solving methodologies and technologies and adapt them to your projects’ requirements.
• Communicate across various levels of the organization, technical and non-technical, tailoring your messaging to each audience.
• Establish trust and a collaborative working relationship with stakeholders across all areas of the business including competitive intelligence, pricing, and finance.
• Clearly and confidently articulate decision-making rationale, solutions, methodologies, and frameworks to team members and both technical and non-technical partners. 
• Share your expertise, learnings, and data with the wider analytics community.

Experience and qualifications:

• You have 4+ years of experience in a data environment and have an academic background in a quantitative discipline.
• Familiarity with data extraction, data wrangling and visualization tools (e.g. SQL, Excel, Tableau, Python, R, etc.). 
• Strong business acumen and critical reasoning skills. 
• Passion for driving business impact by leveraging data. 
• Self-motivated with a positive and can-do attitude, and the ability to drive success with limited guidance in a highly autonomous role. 
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to implement and optimize project framework, plans and work processes in partnership with cross functional project teams. 
• Solid relationship management skills: mobilize, influence, and lead others without having positional authority, by interacting and building rapport with teams of all levels, in a fast-moving and ever-changing environment.  
• A team player, building a climate of inclusion to bring a diverse set of perspectives to the team and solutions. 
• Passionate about logical problem solving and intellectual challenges, with the ability to see the bigger picture whilst not missing the details. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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